Widget Maker vs Kidgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Maker
Design and customize your own widgets for your device's home screen. Personalize them with your favorite pictures as backgrounds and add custom text to make them uniquely yours.
- Create custom widgets
- Use favorite pictures for background
- Place widgets on home screen
- Add custom text
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Widget Maker lets you create beautiful, personalized widgets for your Home Screen. ● Photo Widgets Turn your favorite photos into widgets. Choose from Small, Medium, and Large sizes to fit your Home Screen perfectly. Set auto-refresh to rotate photos at your preferred interval. ● Calendar Widget View the current month at a glance. In Medium size, the calendar and your photo are displayed side by side. ● Fully Customizable - Date & time overlays: month, day, weekday, and more - 20+ fonts including serif, rounded, and handwritten styles - 16 color options for text - Text shadow with customizable color - Adjustable text size and alignment - Custom text input ● Easy to Use 1. Add your photos 2. Customize text, font, color, and layout 3. Place the widget on your Home Screen Make your Home Screen truly yours.
Kidgets
Create personalized home screen widgets to track important dates and information. Choose from beautiful templates or customize your own to display ages, countdowns to events, and even photos.
- Customizable age widgets
- Event countdowns
- Kid's school/sport tracking
- Photo widgets
- Curated templates
- User-friendly interface
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Kidgets lets you customize your home screen with beautiful widgets. Start with our gorgeously curated templates to keep track of things like ages, your child's information about school or sport, countdown to events like anniversaries, birthdays, trips, and holidays. From there you can customize them to fit your unique style. Unlike other widget apps, Kidgets is easy to use and focuses on curating only the best widgets for you. • Keep track of your age • Keep track of your kid's ages • Keep track of your kid's school and sports information • Countdown to upcoming events like birthdays, holidays and vacations. • Keep track of your pregnancy • Add photos of your friends, family or pets Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/41220274
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kidgets at 4.9 against Widget Maker's 4.3. Kidgets also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (75% vs 43%). Widget Maker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Kidgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kidgets holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 75% of Kidgets's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Kidgets every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Kidgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Tinybyte Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Kidgets
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Kidgets
- Kidgets Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Kidgets Pro Annual3 Days trial$4.991 Year
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